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HISTORY IS HAPPENING IN REDMOND!

hat’s New on Our Web Site



REDMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 16600 NE 80th Street, Room 106 Redmond, WA 98052 ~ Tel 425.885.2919

VOLUME 11, NUMBER 6 Our PURPOSE: To Discover, Recover, Preserve, Share and Celebrate Redmond’s History

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JUNE 2009 NEWSLETTER

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une 13 Picnic at Anderson Park

We’ve been adding histories of

Redmond, and a big chunk of that has to do with Derby Days. Richard Morris, our volunteer Web site manager, put together this challenge. The answers are all on our Web site ~ and all who score 100 percent will receive a “Redmond Reflections” book! •

What was the value of the First Place prize back in 1939?

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Which Redmond mayor challenged

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The Society’s annual potluck picnic at Anderson Park is coming

neighboring mayors to race in the



“Classic of the Century?”

up on June 13th, 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm. We’ll provide drinks and a grill

Name the 1968 Derby Days queen, and what did her mother do in 1949?

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The Old Time Fiddlers played at our 2008 picnic and will be back this year as well.

for burgers and hot dogs, and we encourage you to bring your favorite dish to share. We’ll be under a shelter so it’s rain or shine! The city’s oldest park will itself offer something new to visit ~

Betty Buckley Anderson was the first

two water wells and sheds that replace those built in the 1950s. The

queen in 1940. Kay Nichols Brulé was

Society was successful in lobbying the City to move a proposed water

queen in 1942. Kay was known as a

treatment station offsite since it would have impacted the rustic feel of

country girl, Betty as a city girl? What

the park. The much smaller sheds still maintain that character.

was the difference?

The City and King County recently also had Anderson Park placed

Derby Days has been running annually since 1939, except for four years. Which years were those and why the gap?

on the National Register of Historic Places and the Washington State Heritage Register. The park was earlier listed on the City’s Heritage Resource Register and is (so far) the only Redmond site on the federal or state registers. Most of the park’s structures were built by the federal Works

Mail, email (info@redmondhistoricalsociety.

Progress Administration in 1938. In 2007 the City gave the cabins

org) or bring your answers to June’s

(Adair House and Fullard House) a needed facelift ~ some logs were

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replaced after they’d started to decay.

The Redmond Recorder ~ June 2009

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ANNUAL RHS PICNIC

SATURDAY, JUNE 13TH 12:00 noon TO 2:00 p.m.



udley Carter Artwork Dedication

Join the Society and the City on Thursday, July 9, at 6:00 p.m., for the

dedication of an exhibit at City Hall showcasing Redmond’s most renowned

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REDMOND'S ANDERSON PARK

artist, the late wood sculptor Dudley Carter. The City will be displaying scenes painted by Carter as part of a larger exhibit on his technique and body of work. The dedication will be near the grand foyer on the ground floor

2009 Executive Board

Chris Himes President Judy Lang Vice-President Miguel Llanos Vice-President Joanne Westlund Treasurer Mary Hanson Corresponding Secretary Beryl Standley Recording Secretary

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choolhouse Bell Dedicated

Board of Directors Nao Hardy Jon Magnussen John Phillips Doris Schaible Joe Townsend Patti Simpson Ward Margaret Wiese

Office Manager Monica Park

Attorney Charles Diesen Birthday Card Coordinator Amo Marr

Library Liaison

Andy McClung ................................................... Our finances are public record and may be viewed at the office. ...................................................

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The Redmond Recorder

Society President Chris Himes joined Mayor John Marchione in thanking those involved in bringing the bell back to the public. (Photo by Miguel Llanos)



It was the sound of history (107 years old!) when Mayor John

Marchione clanged Redmond’s first schoolhouse bell to dedicate its new home alongside the Public Safety Building on the City Campus. The mayor and Society President Chris Himes thanked all those who worked on the project, particularly Society board members Doris Schaible and Nao Hardy, who did much of the research, and City Planner Jayme Jonas, who shepherded the restoration work and dedication event. A beautiful plaque explains the bell’s unusual journey, which includes a stay in Montana before returning to Redmond in 1988. The dedication took place on May 20, and was part of Redmond’s

Published nine times annually Miguel Llanos Editor Patti Simpson Ward Society/Newsletter Graphic Designer

recognition of National Preservation Month. The day before Mayor

Major Sponsors

The National Trust for Historic Preservation promotes National

Marchione officially recognized that with a proclamation read at the City Council session. Preservation Month and urges folks to take photos of themselves at places that matter to them – and then post them online. Details are on our Web site and please also email ([email protected]) us your photos to post on our site.

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ere You at Our May 9th General Meeting?



These folks were! First time attendees are noted in

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Heap of Historical Thanks to:

Bob Yoder for donating $5 to Hopelink for each Boy Scout who attended last month’s

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meeting, where Boy Scout memories were David Bartley

Cheryl Magnuson

Elsie Bartley

shared.

Carl Marrs

City Planner Jayme Jonas for organizing the

Bob Bear

Pat Marrs

dedication of the first schoolhouse bell

Marjorie Costello

Bob Martin

Tony Emmanuel

Fresh Way U-Bake Pizza, at 8460 164th

Daryl Martin

Avenue NE (next to what had been The Brown

Fred Fink

Betty Mercer

Bag Café!), for donating two free pizza certificates

Lewis Fink

Larry Miller

as our May prize drawings.

Stuart Fitzhugh

Richard Morris

Larry Frey

Blake Norman

Marilyn Frey

James Norman

Stan Frey

Russ Norman

Evelyn Gilbert

Jan Norvold

Nick Hafner

Monica Park

Charlotte Hahnlen

Mike Patterson

Pat Hall

John Phillips

Suzanne Hall

Roxana Phillips

Tom Hall

Virginia Pickett

Clara Hammersberg

Patsy Rosenbach

Jerry Hammersberg

Claudia Martin

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The Society turned 10 on May 31st and

co-founder Nao Hardy came up with some thoughts on how far we’ve come. Her full list is on our Web site, but here’s the gist:

Then:

Tom Hansen

Cameron Allen-Shipman

Marge Hanson

Bob Short

Roy Hanson

Beryl Standley

Nick Heaton

Jim Stensland

Chris Himes

Fred Stray

JoAnn Ingersoll

Anne Tollfeldt

Duane Isackson

Harvey Tollfeldt

Elaine Keeley

Joe Townsend

Bruce Kenyon

Arlyn Vallene

Cheryl Kenyon

John vanVelthuyzen

Marie King

JoAnn Watkins

Betty Kuhl

Don Watts

Howard Kuhl

Rose Weiss

Judy Lang

Joanne Westlund

Miguel Llanos

Jo Wetmore

Brian Lutz

John Wetmore

George Lyons

Margaret Wiese

Jackie Lyons

Bob Yoder

The Redmond Recorder ~ June 2009

Turning 10

We were homeless ~ storing everything we owned in the most peculiar places, and never certain where we’d be meeting from month to month. NOW: We have a home in an historic schoolhouse, plus three secure storage sites. We’ve had 80-plus public meetings and speakers. We’ve nominated and worked for recognition of individuals whose community contributions had faded in public memory. We participated in the first buildings and sites officially designated as historic. We produced “Redmond Reflections,” a DVD of Redmond history, a walking tour brochure and a barns calendar. We participate in Derby Days.

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ifetime Membership in Memory of Lucille B. Hansen-Bellings



Society member Tom Hansen chose Mother’s Day weekend to honor his late mom,

Lucille B. Hansen-Bellings, by signing up for a Lifetime Membership in her name. Lucille made the Redmond area her home beginning in November 1944 with husband Wayne R. Hansen and son Thomas E. Hansen, living at the old Weber farm house on Weber Point. In 1946, daughter Christine M. Hansen was born. The Hansen family, and particularly Lucille, was very active in bringing Redmond residents together in different ways, among them: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the PTA and its Circus, and the Happy Valley Grange. After Wayne passed away, Lucille married Redmond resident Charles Bellings. Lucille would move a few times and worked different jobs but always stayed in the Lucille B. Hansen-Bellings with her two children, Christine and Tom.

Redmond area, where she lived out her life up on Education Hill. Born on Jan. 28, 1913, Lucille passed away on April 6, 2007. She now rests at Cedar Lawns Cemetery next to her first husband Wayne. l

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n Memoriam: Joseph “Bud” Perrigo



A member of one of Redmond’s founding families

from Kirkland that crossed Lake Washington. Perrigo

left us on April 25. Joseph “Bud” Perrigo was 70 when he

attended Lake Washington High School, but quit

passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family.

before he finished and at the age of 16, to join the Navy.

Born in Kirkland on Jan. 22, 1939, Bud was one of

“After serving his time in the Navy, Perrigo

Joseph and Maude Perrigo’s six children. His great

moved back to Kirkland and held various jobs until

grandparents owned Redmond’s first trading post and

he met Marcella Edwards. In the summer of 1961,

donated land to Redmond for its first water system and

Bud met, courted and married Marcella in the span

school. The Kirkland Recorder wrote this tribute

of three months. They were married at the Rose Hill

to Bud:

Presbyterian Church on October 20th, 1961.

“Bud Perrigo grew up in Kirkland, catching crawdads

“Perrigo held a number of different jobs in his life,

and diving for the pennies that travelers threw into Lake

including working as a hod-carrier, a postal worker and

Washington from the Kirkland ferry dock. His family would

partner in the State Street Texaco service station. He

occasionally make the all-day trip to the Farmers Food

eventually retired from King County after 27 years of

Market (now Pike Place Market) in Seattle, using the ferry

public service in flood control.”

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urrent Lifetime RHS Members

Eric Anderson John Anderson Barbara Neal Beeson Brad Best Marjorie Stensland Costello Liz Carlson Coward Frank Garbarino Edward L. Hagen Lucille B. Hansen-Bellings

The Redmond Recorder ~ June 2009

Naomi Hardy Patricia Weiss Jovag Barbara Weiss Joyce Glenn Lampaert Roy Lampaert Judy Aries Lang Miguel Llanos Jon Magnussen Charles Reed

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Clare “Amo” Marr Daryl Martin Allison Reed Morris Frances Spray Reed Vivian Robinson Laurie Rockenbeck Margy Rockenbeck William Rockenbeck Doris Bauer Schaible Don Watts Rose Weiss Margaret Evers Wiese

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ext Redmond Walking Tours



If you live in Redmond, you probably drive along

Leary Way often. But do you know the histories of the buildings there? Like, which one was both an undertaker's premises and a bordello and City Hall? Tom Hitzroth educates and entertains folks with walking tours that explore those histories.

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An $8 per person fee goes to fund Society research. Email Tom at [email protected] or phone

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us at 425.885.2919 to reserve a spot or for more information.

“On the Ways,” the newspaper of the

Remaining 2009 dates:

Lake Washington Shipyards in Kirkland during

June 21

World War II, has been digitized by the Kirkland

September 20

Heritage Society.

CD-ROMs are available for $22 via Redmond

Historical Society.

To order call 425 827-3446.

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✂ Redmond Reflections Order Form Also available at the Redmond Library!

Free shipping for current members, so if you haven't joined or renewed, there's a form on the last page of this newsletter that you can send in with the book order form below. Price per book: $22.00 (Includes Washington State Sales Tax) (Non-Members, please add postage: $3 for one book, $5 for two and $8 for three or more)

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edmond Medical Center Wants Kids on Parade

—Some words from a sponsor:

As it has since 1989, the Redmond Medical Center again is helping to organize the Derby Days Kids Parade – this year it’s on July 11 at 10 a.m. Visit redmond.gov/recreationarts/derbydays/grandparade.asp for info on how to participate, as well as to see this year’s categories (one of which is “History Makers” and hosted by the Historical Society!) and photos from past parades like the one at right. Some 75 volunteers, most from the medical center, organize the kids parade. Office tenants (see redmondmedicalcenter.com for listing) collectively choose to use the budget created for marketing to give back to the community. The center also sponsors the Redmond Elementary PTSA Hawk Walk Fun Run and an annual donation to the local food bank. l

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oin the Redmond Historical Society AND HELP DISCOVER, RECOVER, PRESERVE AND SHARE REDMOND’S HISTORY!

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